Guide to the Thomas Kerrigan Papers
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Guide to the Thomas Kerrigan Papers, ca. 1964-2010
Collection number: Mss 56
Department of Special Collections, Davidson Library, University of California, Santa Barbara
Contact Information:
- Department of Special Collections
- Davidson Library
- University of California, Santa Barbara
- Santa Barbara, CA 93106
- Phone: (805) 893-3062
- Fax: (805) 893-5749
- Email: special@library.ucsb.edu
- URL: http://www.library.ucsb.edu/special-collections/
- Processed by:
- Special Collections staff
- Date Completed:
-
20 November 2001
- Latest revision:
- Mar. 13, 2012
- Encoded by:
- David C. Gartrell
© 2012 Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
Descriptive Summary
Title: Thomas Kerrigan Papers
Dates: ca. 1964-2010
Collection Number: Mss 56
Collector:
Kerrigan, T. S.
Extent:
2.4 linear feet
(6 document boxes)
Repository:
University of California, Santa Barbara. Library. Department of Special Collections
Santa Barbara, California 93106-9010
Abstract: Correspondence and manuscripts (poetry and prose) submitted to Thomas Kerrigan, attorney, poet, and editor of
Hierophant (a Los Angeles magazine of new poetry and fiction), ca. 1969-1972. Correspondents/contributors include Douglas Blazek, Charles
Bukowski, Robert Creeley, Thom Gunn, and Lee Mallory.
Physical Location: Del Sur.
Language:
English.
Access Restrictions
None.
Publication Rights
Copyright has not been assigned to the Department of Special Collections, UCSB. All requests for permission to publish or
quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Collections. Permission for publication is given
on behalf of the Department of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply
permission of the copyright holder, which also must be obtained.
Preferred Citation
Thomas Kerrigan Papers. Mss 56. Department of Special Collections, Davidson Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.
Acquisition Information
Multiple donations, latest 2011.
Biography
Thomas S. Kerrigan was born on March 15, 1939 in Los Angeles, California. He attended the University of California at Berkeley
and Loyola University Law School in Los Angeles, being admitted to the bar in 1965. In the late 1960s, his abiding interest
in poetry led him to create the literary journal
Hierophant, which he edited and published. During the few years he was actively involved in publishing
Hierophant, he corresponded with numerous poets and writers, such as Charles Bukowski, Robert Creeley, Hugh Fox, Thom Gunn, Lee Mallory,
and Jacques Prevert.
Kerrigan is also the author of many poems and plays. His poetry has been published in several well-known journals in America
and abroad. Inevitable Press published a collection of his poems as
Another Bloomsday at Molly Malone's Pub (1999). He has seen his plays produced, including
Branches Among the Stars (1990), and has been active in the Los Angeles theater scene, having served as a member of the Ensemble Studio Theatre's
board of directors and as a member of the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle. In addition to his work as a theater critic, he
continues his law practice, and has successfully argued a case before the United States Supreme Court.
Scope and Content of Collection
The collection contains correspondence and manuscripts (poetry and prose) submitted to Thomas Kerrigan for
Hierophant (a magazine of new poetry and fiction), which he edited and published in Los Angeles, ca. 1969-1972.
A complete set of
Hierophant issues also is located in UCSB Special Collections, has been cataloged separately, and can be searched on Pegasus, the UCSB
Libraries online catalog.
Additions to the collection in 2004 include correspondence to/from notable poets, many Irish, other items relating to poetry,
and documents pertaining to Kerrigan's legal career, including a case argued before the U.S. Supreme Court.
Additions to the collection in 2008 include manuscript poems and correspondence (in/out) mostly emails, ca. 2007-2008, contained
in three notebooks.
Indexing Terms
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Kerrigan, T. S.
Hierophant.
Poets, American -- 20th century.
American poetry -- 20th century -- Periodicals.
Box 1: 1
Aiken, Bill - 1 letter,
1970
Box 1: 2
Allman, John - 4 letters,
1971-1973
Box 1: 3
B (misc.) - 3 letters,
1969
Box 1: 4
Bertelé, René - 3 letters,
1968-1969
Box 1: 5
Blazek, Douglas - 2 letters,
1969
Box 1: 6
Bukowski, Charles - 4 letters,
1971-1972
Box 1: 7
C (misc.) - 4 letters,
1970-1972
Box 1: 8
Contoski, Victor - 11 letters,
1969-1971
Box 1: 9
Creeley, Robert - 1 letter,
1968
Box 1: 10
D (misc.) - 4 letters,
1967,
1970-1972
Box 1: 11
Deutschman, Deborah - 3 letters,
1970
Box 1: 12
Elliott, Harley - 3 letters,
1969-1970
Box 1: 13
F (misc.) - 4 letters,
1970-1971
Box 1: 14
Fellowes, Peter - 5 letters,
1970-1971
Box 1: 15
Flanagan, Robert - 3 letters,
1970
Box 1: 16
G (misc.) - 6 letters (including 1 Thom Gunn letter),
1968-1971
Box 1: 17
Glenn, Emilie - 5 letters,
1969-1971
Box 1: 18
Gordon, David - 3 letters,
1970-1971
Box 1: 19
H (misc.) - 8 letters,
1969-1970
Box 1: 20
Henighan, Tom - 3 letters,
1969-1970
Box 1: 21
Hershon, Robert - 3 letters,
1969-1970
Box 1: 22
Hoffman, Daniel - 3 letters,
1969
Box 1: 23
Inez, Colette - 8 letters,
1971
Box 1: 24
Jarrett, Emmett - 14 letters,
1970-1972
Box 1: 25
Johnson, Colton - 5 letters,
1970-1971
Box 1: 26
K (misc.) - 2 letters,
1964,
1970
Box 1: 27
Kerrigan, Anthony - 20 letters,
1970-1972
Box 1: 28
Kerrigan, Anthony - photocopies, including some between AK and other parties,
1970-1972
Box 1: 29
M (misc.) - 4 letters,
1968,
1970
Box 1: 30
McLaughlin, Bill - 2 letters,
1970
Box 1: 31
Mallory, Lee - 10 letters,
1970-1972
Box 1: 32
Mambrino, Jean - 1 letter,
1969
Box 1: 33
Marshall, Howard - 3 letters,
1969-1970
Box 1: 34
N (misc.) - 1 letter, Feb. [n.y.]
Box 1: 35
O (misc.) - 1 letter,
1969
Box 1: 36
O'Keefe, Richard - 8 letters,
1969-1973
Box 1: 37
P (misc.) - 2 letters, n.d.
Box 1: 38
Panache Magazine [Frank, Rosalie] - 15 letters,
1969-1972
Box 1: 39
Rosenberg, Kenyon - 5 letters,
1969
Box 1: 40
Russell, Norman H. - 2 letters,
1970-1971
Box 1: 41
S (misc.) - 18 letters,
1968-1971
Box 1: 42
T (misc.) - 5 letters,
1968-1971
Box 1: 43
W (misc.) - 14 letters,
1969-1971
Box 1: 44
Wade, John Stevens - 10 letters,
1969-1972
Box 1: 45
Y (misc.) - 1 letter,
1970
Outgoing
1970-1972
Additional Note
Mainly carbons and photocopies - 9 items.
Prose and Poetry Manuscripts
ca. 1969-1972
Additional Note
Mainly undated. Arranged by author; includes typescripts.
Box 2: 2
Aiken, William -- 2 items
Box 2: 4
Anderson, Jack -- 4 items
Box 2: 5
Blazek, Douglas -- 2 items
Box 2: 6
Contoski, Victor -- 10 items
Box 2: 7
Costanzo, Gerald -- 2 items
Box 2: 8
Creeley, Robert -- 1 item
Box 2: 9
Deutschman, Deborah -- 1 item
Box 2: 10
Elliott, Harley -- 1 item
Box 2: 11
Fellowes, Peter -- 4 items
Box 2: 12
Flaherty, Doug -- 2 items
Box 2: 13
Flanagan, Robert -- 1 item
Box 2: 15
Frank, Rosalie -- 4 items
Box 2: 17
Gordon, David -- 12 items
Box 2: 19
Griffin, Walter -- 1 item
Box 2: 20
Henighan, T.J. -- 3 items
Box 2: 21
Hershon, Robert -- 5 items
Box 2: 22
Hoffman, Daniel -- 2 items
Box 2: 24
Husted, Russell -- 3 items
Box 2: 26
Jarrett, Emmett -- 3 items
Box 2: 27
Johnson, Colton -- 1 item
Box 2: 28
Kaebitzsch, R.J. -- 4 items
Box 2: 29
Kerrigan, Anthony -- 3 items
Box 2: 31
McLaughlin, William -- 3 items
Box 2: 34
Mambrino, Jean -- 9 items
Box 2: 35
O'Keefe, Richard -- 12 items
Box 2: 36
Opalov, Leonard -- 2 items
Box 2: 37
Phillips, Louis -- 1 item
Box 2: 38
Prevert, Jacques -- 7 items
Box 2: 40
Rosenberg, Kenyon -- 31 items
Box 2: 41
Russell, Norman H. -- 9 items
Box 2: 42
Schaeffer, Susan -- 3 items
Box 3: 1
Schmatz, Howard -- 1 item
Box 3: 2
Schreiber, Ron -- 2 items
Box 3: 3
Schroeder, Andreas -- 3 items
Box 3: 4
Schwartz, Howard -- 4 items
Box 3: 6
Silverman, Stuart -- 1 item
Box 3: 7
Simpson, Louis -- 2 items
Box 3: 10
Smith, Michael -- 3 items
Box 3: 13
Thorne, Evelyn -- 2 items
Box 3: 14
Trott, Rosemary -- 2 items
Box 3: 15
Wade, John Stevens -- 1 item
Box 3: 17
Wiegner, Kathleen -- 2 items
Box 3: 18
Wildermann, Paul -- 3 items
Box 4
Additions: 2004
Additional Note
Mainly correspondence and documents re poetry and notable poets, and Kerrigan's legal career, to 2004.
Box 5
Additions: 2008
Additional Note
Three notebooks of manuscript poems and correspondence (in/out), mostly emails, ca. 2007-2008.
Box 6
Additions: 2010
Additional Note
Mainly printouts of correspondence re verse by Kerrigan and others, including his forthcoming collection,
A Homecoming in the Next Parish Over.
Box 6
Additions: 2011
Additional Note
One envelope, mainly printouts of email correspondence re latest activities, including his book
My Dark People and tentative plans for third book of his verse, also the annual Poetry on the Lake Festival.
Additions: 2011-2 - 2012-2
Box 6
Correspondence with Timothy Steele,
Light - The Quarterly of Light Verse, Joe Kennedy, Alicia Stallings, Siobhan Campbell, James R. Elkins, Eric Ormsby, Daniel Hoffman and others, mostly re: poetry
and submission to journals (includes email printouts, some re: poem, "Five Views of An Actress")
Box 6
Page from an Italian newspaper,
1986
Box 6
Website printouts of poem - "On Looking into Richard Ellmann's James Joyce"; preview of
My Dark People
Box 6
Book review of
My Dark People
Box 6
Los Angeles Times article (12 November 2010) about Kerrigan's involvement with Steve Cooley anti-union court case
Box 6
Genealogical papers demonstrating Kerrigan's connection to William Butler Yeats
Box 6
Miscellaneous correspondence between Kerrigan and other poets/authors/editors
